Improvement in door-fastenings



G. A.. VARNEY.

DQOr-Fastenings.

No. 197,695. Patented Nov. 27,187'lf.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.A

GEORGE A. VARNEY, OE ROCKWOOD, ASSIGNOR OE ONE-HALE` HIS RIGHT TO JOSEPH A. B. WOLVEN, OF FLAT ROCK, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN DOOR-FASTENINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,695, dated November 27, 1877; application filed July 30, 1877. i

To all 'whom 'it may concert.:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. VARNEY, of Rockwood, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Door-Fastenings; and

I do declare that the following is a true and accurate description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, and being a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of a pair of barndoors from the inside, with my improved fastening attached. Fig. 2 is a similar view, With the full-length door partially unlocked; 'and Fig. 3 is a similar view of the upper one of the half-doors open.

The nature of this invention relates to an improvement in fastenings for barn and other large doors, which are designed to lock the door simultaneously at the top and bottom, or when the door consists of two half-doors, so that either half may be opened or locked separatel y.

VThe invention consists in the combination, with a door, of a Vertical bar, sliding in a staple'at its outer end, and pivoted at its heel.

elongated staple or guide-bar. F, provided with a longitudinal slot, b. Near the outer ends-of the top and bottom rails c d, I drive staples e. Gare1ocking-bars,whose abutting ends are pivoted together by pin f, which passes through their lapping ends and thev elongated slot b in the staple F. Thefree ends of these bars Gj'when the door is locked, engage with suitable stops in or s'ecured to the sill and upper floor-plate, as shown. To simultaneously lock the top and bottom of this' bars H, and the operation is so self-evident from the drawing that a further description is deemed unnecessary.

What I claim as my inventioinis- The combination, with a door, of a Vertical bar, sliding at its outer' end in a staple, and pivoted at its heel in a horizontal slotted guidebar, substantially as' described and shown.

GEORGE A. VARNEY.

I Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, S. J. SPRAY. 

